You’ve reached the proverbial entrance to geek nirvana - Adam’s site development page.

Basics

This site is built on the open-source WordPress platform, commonly used for blogging. However, eight months of building, rebuilding, testing, coding, and headbanging don’t all go to naught. We used as a base the Freshy theme set, and then built and modified on it extensively. The original theme was built by Julien De Luca and his site can be found here. (Careful - it’s in French. Also, Jide, if you ever read this, our many thanks! Merci!)

Our server is running on Linux, with Apache.

…and the kitchen sink?!

In addition to the theme files, I’ve made use of an extensive set of PHP plugins. Here’s a selected list, and what they do.

• cForms II - by Oliver Seidel. If you came across one of the forms on the site (see the Feedback tab on the menu bar), you’ve experienced only a small amount of what this sparkling plugin can offer. Simply one of the best plugins available, period.
• wordTube - by Alex Rabe. A well-made SWF/FLV media player.
• Simple Tags - by Amaury Balmer. Extends tagging from just the blog to all pages and posts.
• BM Custom Login - by John Havlik. Allowed me to customize the images on the login screen.
• Role Manager - by Thomas Schneider. This creates a massive and incredibly versatile user interface for administrating users on the site, and exactly what they can and cannot do. Another gem of a plugin.

For developers looking to know even more, leave us a comment.